I mean, I won't be allowed to install it side by side on my work laptop in a million years. GPU acceleration would be nice in a VM if macOS can pass it through, which I've no idea if it can.

It's not really intended to be run as a standalone distro (there's a fedora version though) and (afaiu) the point is to understand the bootloader process and stuff like GPU support from linux.

I know company policy moves glacially with these things (been there, got the faded t-shirt!) so yea, you're probably right there. Technically you could probably still use linux MDM instead of MacOS for mgmt, but getting that past IT is nigh on impossible imho also.

As long as the architecture satisfies Popeck and Goldberg, why shouldn't it?

The point of Asahi is to provide linux drivers for Apple hardware. What would be the point? You can already run Linux in a VM on arm macOS today with good performances. You don't even need to disable SIP.

Passing through a device and using it in a VM.